much different from the actual distribution. Our findings suggest that inheritance taxes may do little to mitigate the …

We study how attitudes to inheritance taxation are influenced by information about the role of inherited wealth in … inheritance taxation. The effect is almost uniform across socio-economic groups and survives a battery of robustness tests … inherited wealth could be one explanation behind the relatively marginalized role of inheritance taxation in developed economies …

inheritance within a decade while the inheritances of wealthy heirs remain intact. These different depletion rates are not due to … different consumption or labor supply responses but due to different rates of return on inherited wealth. Upon their receipt … in inequality could be due to either a com-pressed inheritance distribution or similar chances of having wealthy parents …

saving predicts that an increase in income uncertainty increases saving by reducing both consumption and fertility. We …In this paper, we conduct an empirical study of how uncertainty alters fertility behavior. The precautionary motive for … countries for the period from 1996 to 2017. The empirical findings indicate that uncertainty decreases the fertility rate, as …

the period of turmoil. We highlight risk attitude as an important selection mechanism, beyond education and other … observable characteristics, which explains: (i) why some women did not alter their fertility decisions during these uncertain … economic times, (ii) that this risk preference was passed on to their children and (iii) that risk preference is correlated …